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Any Mary Kay Consultants out There?
I'm thinking about becoming a Mary Kay consultant. I love the Timewise line. And there are some great tax advantages. But I'm just starting a new career, and I don't know if I'd be committed enough to my MK business. I don't have children, but we live in a tiny house and I don't have a ton of room to keep products in stock. Any thoughts? Pros? Cons?
Re: Any Mary Kay Consultants out There?
I have been a consultant since 2005. I have two people on my "team." At one point, I had six.
If you want to be successful at MK (director, car, prizes, etc.) you have to literally work it every day with every woman you meet/know. I'm not joking.
There are so many great stories of women being very successful with this business, but it takes lots of time and effort. Anyone can do this, but the key is motivation and unending work. Coming home from the 9-5 job and going right back to work again. Fitting MK stuff into your lunch break. MK on the weekends.
This is why I now only purchase product twice a year (to stay active) for my personal use and only sell to my mom and sister and randomly a few other people who find out I'm a consultant.
I got tired of seeing every woman I met as a potential customer or team member. I felt yucky about it. So, I backed off my business and now only sell to a few people.
I believe in what MK stands for - as a company helping women with the non-profits they contribute to. I think their product line is good (Timewise is awesome) and several of the products have the Skin Cancer Foundation's stamp of approval. I have used Timewise since 2005. I am 31. People think I am in my mid 20's. I'll be blunt, my skin is in amazing shape! I love getting the stuff at-cost.
Honestly, I think the fragrances are average. I have used just about all of them and they give me headaches. I buy all my scents from other places now. I'm also not a fan of the body care lines...Bath and Body Works is much more fun to hop at for that stuff anyway. I do love MK's foundations and other cosmetics like eye shadows and lip colors. The compacts with the magnets are pretty nifty.
Also, if you're going to do an at-home business it does make sense to sell a consumable product since people will always need to reorder (a lady can only have so many candles and purses or jewelry, but every day she puts on and washes off her make-up).
But the one thing I found was a high push by the sales directors to get you to order lots of product right at the start to have an inventory. Personally, I felt like if I was going to do it correctly I needed all of it and I bought $2,400 worth of product from the start.
But you MUST keep in mind that in retail, which this is, products are discontinued or changed. And, even before I could sell some of my inventory, MK had switched the packaging or changed the labels or altered the names of the products or even discontinued the items altogether. I was stuck with lots of product that I could sell since it was brand-new and unopened, but it didn't match with all of the marketing materials. I ended up donating the unused items to a women's shelter in my area and writing off the donation. My advice if you do this...don't get sucked into the large inventory purchase.
Also, be prepared to work for success. It is not easy. And while you may be building a team the MK stats show that 1/3 of your team is highly active, another 1/3 is pretty consistent and the last 1/3 is on their way out and have lost interest.
If your team shrinks, you as a consultant will get "demoted." Meaning let's say you get to be a Team Leader. If you don't stay active continuing to build your team bigger, and a few consultants drop out, then you get moved out of Team Leader status to the rung prior to that. You must always be working if you want the better prizes and the bigger commission checks. My sales director, who is actually in VA, earns well over $150k per year doing MK. She lives it.
I could probably be that successful because I have a knack for sales, but I've decided to make other choices in regards to how I view people.
I'm not trying to talk you out of this necessarily, I just want you to go into this with eyes wide open. You won't hear this talk from a sales director.
You can PM me if you have more questions.